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Unreal Engine Delaying PS3 Games

As part of a Gameplayer preview on upcoming Digital Extremes shooter Dark Sector, the game's director, Steve Sinclair, drops an interesting quote about Unreal Engine 3. He claims that they decided against using the engine so they could hit their desired release date.

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power of Green - 860 days 18 hours ago

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Seems common with the Unreal Engine Its great but maybe its not designed for all consoles as well as they though although 360 devs have had issues and Epics games always seen to be just fine on both consoles. Is it luck that produces great games on PS3?.

Maybe the Engine was developed too earily before they really understood the hardware for all consoles.

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Watkins - 860 days 15 hours ago

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PoG, that was a NEUTRAL comment.. Did someone hack your account? Else I have to say that I'm proud over you!

As for the UE3, it was designed for Pc-like architecture, it's not all that strange they're having issues porting it to a console that relies a lot less on memory usage and a whole lot more on data crunching.

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Gizmo_Logix - 859 days 21 hours ago

1.2 - Epic

Epic games will be optimized PERIOD. All other 3rd party devs are shying away from the URE. It's this is not about the PS3, per se. But rather a competition between Epic and other 3rd party developers that they compete with (license the Unreal Engine).

So, isn't not only Silicon Knights. But Digital Extremes that is wary of EPics own monopoly on the game engine industry.

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theonlyfro98 - 860 days 18 hours ago

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well if what he is saying is true...its not looking good for the ps3....HOWEVER once EPIC optimizes UE3 for the ps3...it shouldnt be a problem for developers in the future... my 2 cents....

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achira - 860 days 16 hours ago

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its obvious that its the unreal engine who caused the delays and the knowledge of the developers. but in some time everything will be past.

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xrobbanx - 860 days 16 hours ago

3.1 - Waitstation

Im impressed how you non gamers just are satisfied with waiting havent you benn waiting for like an extra year or 2 now?

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SuperSaiyan4 - 860 days 16 hours ago

4 - Who needs the Unreal 3 engine?

There will be other amazing games coming without the need for the Unreal 3 engine.

Too Human doesnt use it and it looks great also The Darkness another amazing game doesnt use the U3 engine.

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hella whip - 860 days 12 hours ago

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@4.1 it was going to then they decided to make there own engine and sue Epic i think.

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hikikimori - 860 days 16 hours ago

5 - EPIC Screwing their licensees/competition?

It does seem strange that Epics UT3 is steaming along quite nicely, but some 3rd party's who licensed their
technology are struggling with their PS3 builds. What's up with that?

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Fanboi - 860 days 15 hours ago

5.1 - What else is new?

Epic sucks at supporting their licensed devs, if you really want engine support buy either the Tech 5 or Doom engine from iD.

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crippler666 - 860 days 15 hours ago

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IMO that might be the reason Sony plowed $40million into GG, maybe they want an alternate game engine. Killzone looks nice so it would make sense to use the game engine elsewhere.

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jlytle1234 - 860 days 11 hours ago

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i thought sony was suppose to work with optimizing that engine. somebody should call and remind them.

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MK_Red - 860 days 10 hours ago

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Maybe that's why Sony and Epic announced that they are hard working on UE3 for PS3 during E3 and also the reason non of PS3's exclusives (HS, Uncharted, Ratchet, Lair, Folklore, Warhawk) are using UE3.
Hopefully with UT3 performing well on PS3, devs learn how to use it for PS3 and we can all enjoy UE3 games on both platforms. PS3 & 360

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THE_JUDGE - 860 days 10 hours ago

9 - A year from now

this won't even be an issue. Sony is working with Epic, thats has already been said. I believe all the issues with PS3 and the Unreal Engine will be resolved by UT3's release. I'm sure Sony has noticed the delays in games and will help to rectify it.

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DEADEND - 860 days 8 hours ago

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For some reason I think there will be a better engine out for 360 and PS3 by sometime next year.

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Daishi - 860 days 5 hours ago

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Agreed. What engine is the new Star Wars game running because I think that will become a new standard. UE3 was just to help people get over the pains of developing for next gen systems and we are almost there.

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SlappingOysters - 860 days ago

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Isn't the new star wars more about DMM technology and Euphoria which are both (I think) licensed.

The new ID engine looks pretty sick. So does the TimeShift engine.

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Xbox is the BEST - 860 days ago

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it's the weaker of the two consoles. Next year PS fans will say "Wait til next year" keep waiting

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resistance100 - 860 days ago

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Wow talk about spin.

If you read the article it also states that the UE3 on other platforms is delaying games aswell not just PS3.

Still to be fair, it has already been optimised for 360 and PC, and is still in process of being fully optimised for PS3

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